Hi Jill,
re: " I just am not going to eat deer, period. No venison."
I'm with you. I just don't like venison. Too much of it growing up on the ranch. Besides, it sticks to the roof of your mouth.. LOL.
I have read your posts on Lyme disease and have a few thoughts about it as usual. <g>. I grew up among deer, mostly white tail, some mule deer in the higher country and I can't think of one case of Lyme disease around our area. The white tail would come into our fields in the spring of the year to eat the young alfalfa. Maybe 60, 70 or a hundred or so, we would estimate in the evenings.
I am thinking that people that grew up around deer maybe developed some sort of immunity to Lymes. And now since deer and urban people are meeting for the first time like in areas maybe like yours, the people which have no immunity to the disease, are catching it.
I think natural immunities are really important and I think the chickens are coming home to roost for us since so many people live in a 'sterile' environment.
We drink treated water at worst or bottled at best. We keep our children out of the dirt, and on and on..
Our water supply when we grew up was a natural spring about a quarter of mile above our house and one of the water sources for our cattle was the over flow next to the same spring. Well, in late summer, the water would drop and there might not be much of a flow out, maybe even a back flow into the same spring. Since cattle have a tendency to deficate near their water supply, we would catch that waste material washed back into our domestic water supply. Then when we would wake up in the morning, take a drink, spit it out, <g>, and know what we had to do the first thing. Dig out the spring and let it clear out for a day or so and go on .. Nobody got sick.. Beaver fever or anything like it.
And when I was doing a lot of geology, I would run into a spring, drink it and sometimes have to spit it out. But so far so good.
I guess what I am getting at is our sterile environment has created a lot of problems, imo.
BTW, we have friends that will only drink bottled water when they are our house guests. Even if we have a wonderful well, pumping fresh, sweet water.. :)
Oh, one more thing, I did hear of one or two cases of 'Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever" which can throw one for a loop too, contacted from infected ticks. We did always check for ticks during the early season. Sometimes, we would get a big one, <g>, that was missed for a few days. <ng>
Sorry for the long post, but one thing led to another, as always.
Have a nice evening,
c
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